Mushrooms, 2007
Mushrooms suddenly sprang up in an indoor pot of aloe vera this week. I don’t know what type they are. Maybe someone out there does? It’s the first time we’ve ever had mushrooms spring up indoors. They only made an appearance in the aloe vera pot.
What do you call the place where the stem attaches to the cap? I can’t seem to find a name for it and these show very obviously that point on the upper cap side. They were an ivory color with brown centers and paper thin delicate
It’s difficult in this apartment for plants to do well, at least consistently. All my cactus, which did great for years, started dying off this past summer and half of the new cactus I picked up died. I love cactus so I won’t be giving it up, but it has been disconcerting.
On a good note, our several palm type plants and good luck bamboo (which we’ve managed to have for about a year and a half to two years) all seem to be doing okay.
Oops, Sally the climbing crab just fell down. She seems to like being held. I’m still timid about it but she readily comes out of her shell.
I’m a little concerned about Jerry and wonder if we got an unhealthy crab. Or maybe he’s still just nervous. He does come out to eat at night and moves around some, but he’s not yet very active, isn’t climbing at all and if I come near he immediately withdraws and doesn’t come back out for a long while.
Update: Jerry finally came out when I was holding him. He is a much smaller crab than Sarah, considerably less developed, more a dull purplish-red color than Sarah whose claws are bright red.
Sarah keeps climbing up and hanging upside down from the top of the terrarium, then can’t manage to get a good grip to climb back down and so falls to the bottom, clack.
Well, I read some are burrowers and will consistently burrow under their dishes if there is room for it. Where Jerry has been, I note he has cleared away the sand to the bottom of the terrarium, next to the water dishes. When we get the 10 gallon terrarium set up today he will be no doubt happy to burrow away in several inches of sand.
And the two day old, small terrarium we can keep for an isolation tank and for easily porting them.
Update two: Finally found this photo of Leucocoprinus birnbaumii that matches up with what we’ve got though ours were more ivory in color (at least by the time I saw them). So identification had. I’d read before about this as a common houseplant mushroom but had only seen images of them in a bright squash yellow.
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